Michéle Savidge was born in Nottingham and spent the first few months of her life with her parents in a flat equidistant from Trent Bridge cricket ground and Nottingham Forest’s City Ground stadium. She became obsessed by cricket (and especially West Indies cricket) when, aged 12, she saw Viv Richards bat, vowing then to become a cricket journalist at a time when young girls were hardly welcomed into the profession. She went on to begin her career on The Cricketer magazine, edited then by the legendary Christopher Martin-Jenkins, before moving on to become deputy editor on Imran Khan’s Cricket Life International. After that magazine’s entirely predictable financial collapse, she became the first female sports sub-editor on the London Evening Standard. 

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She is the co-author (with Alastair McLellan) of Real Quick: A Celebration of the West Indies Pace Quartets. 

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Insurmountable hurdles in the form of bringing up children and caring for her elderly parents caused disruption to her career before, consumed by grief, Michéle started reflecting on her life in cricket resulting in Between Overs: How Life Gets in the Way of Cricket.

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She is now working on her next book, which sees her returning to her passion for the West Indies game.